Ex-CJN, DAHIRU MUSDAPHER DIES AT 75

The deceased was succeeded by Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar in 2012. He was educated at the Ahmadu Bello University and the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London and called to the Nigerian bar in 1968.

Musdapher began his legal practice as one of the early private legal practitioners in Northern Nigeria, while in 1976 was appointed Kaduna State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice. He switched to the bench in 1979 with his appointment as a High Court in Kano state and was later made the state’s Chief Judge.

The late former CJN was in 1983 appointed to the Court of Appeal where he spent 18 years, until his appointment to the Supreme Court in 2003. He hailed from a family of emigrant Kanuri scholars and jurists in Babura local government of present-day Jigawa state.